IIT Madras is ranked first amongst several other similar Research and Teaching Institutions in Engineering.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) offers various UG, PG and Research courses.

The CS Department was started as the Computer Centre in 1973 with the acquisition of an IBM.

It offered M.Tech, M.S and PhD degree programmes.

Important dates:

Ph.D. Admissions
Submission of online application (at the IITM research portal)
Mar 27, 2016

Notification by email about shortlisting
Shortlist for Written Test
Statistics & Criteria
Apr 8, 2016

About selection process :

All applicants need to take a written test and the marks obtained in this test would be used for shortlisting the candidates for the interview.

Written Test

The written test consists of multiple-choice questions and/or fill-in the blanks questions. The examination is aimed at testing the Analytical Ability (Basic Engineering Mathematics including Continuous Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, Ratio and proportion, Combinatorics, Technical Comprehension), and also depth of knowledge in typical subjects of CSE, such as Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, Programming (in C), Algorithms, Digital Logic and Computer Organisation, Operating Systems, Formal languages and Automata Theory, Databases, Networks, Compilers and Signals and Systems. The test would be of duration of about 2 hours.

Research Areas

Hardware Systems
Human Computer Interaction
Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering
Networks and Distributed Systems
Programming Languages, Compilers and Software Engineering
Theoretical Computer Science

Address:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Beside Adyar Cancer Institute
Opposite to C.L.R.I
Sardar Patel Road, Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036
044 2257 8280